The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 16
Articles in this issue
- Boston correspondent reports the Union Base Ball Grounds bicycle track is failing financially and the Cunningham Company remains under a US Customs keeper over disputed import duties, and previews the Boston Bicycle Club's tricycle road race from South Natick to Boston on August 11.
- Detailed description of the nearly-completed 174x97-foot skating rink at Rutland, projected by the local bicycle club at a cost of about $15,000.
- Karl Kron warns subscribers against impostors collecting advance payments for his forthcoming book "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle," reporting enrollment has crept only to 1,450 of the 3,000 names needed.
- Circular from Chief Consul Mahlon D. Currier and Secretary W. I. Harris accompanying the Division's first handbook and urging members to renew at $1 and support the League's work.
- H. F. Fuller reports Lincoln Park's new restrictions limiting cyclists to squads of three and barring entry after 8 p.m., plus results of the Chicago Bicycle Club's July 1 races at the West Side Driving Park won largely by N. H. Van Sicklen.
- Account of the New Jersey Division L.A.W. annual meeting at Red Bank on July 5, where Wm. J. Morrison was elected Secretary-Treasurer and a rain-shortened parade and record run to Matawan took place.
- The Buckeye Bicycle Club of Columbus opened its new $2,000 club house on East Gay street with a banquet for seventy, claimed as the only purpose-built bicycle club house west of New York.
- Stenographic extract of an L.A.W. officers' meeting in which Mr. Ducker defends racer Hendee and admits paying all his expenses, illustrating the amateur-professionalism problem.
- Karl Kron replies to "L. A. W. 1242" with a detailed shore-route description from Harlem Bridge to Bridgeport via Pelham, New Rochelle, Rye, Norwalk and Fairfield.
- Results of the Cleveland Bicycle Club's third annual races at Athletic Park on July 10, with wins by W. H. Wetmore, A. Dolph and the Collisters before about 1,000 spectators.
- The Salt Lake Bicycle Club's regular semi-annual meeting elected Geo. J. Taylor president and other officers for the ensuing six months.
- Results of the Salt Lake Bicycle Club's July 4 races, with Wm. Wood taking the championship gold medal and H. Cartright winning the quarter-mile handicap.
- Editorial praising the second annual Niagara-to-Boston tour conceived by Burley B. Ayers of the Chicago Club and its sixty-strong party, while apologizing for shortcomings in this vacation-week issue.
- A romantic sketch signed "Malc." in which a rider faints attempting a steep wooded hill climb and is revived by a young woman, beginning a lasting friendship.
- First-person narrative of the tour's departure from New York by the West Shore Railroad to Niagara Falls, with sightseeing at the falls, the Cave of the Winds and Whirlpool Rapids, and the steamer Chicora across the lake to Toronto.
- The Toronto Lacrosse Club's July 3 races, where C. F. Lavender won the mile and F. J. Campbell the three-mile, both breaking Canadian records.
- Calendar of upcoming fixtures including the Boston-Providence camp at Sharon, the Ohio Division L.A.W. meet at Cleveland, and the Springfield Bicycle Association tournament.
- Miscellaneous items including Mlle. Armaindo's trick-riding exhibitions, a census of New York's five cycling clubs totalling 158 members, and Robert O'Manigan's lost $100 wager to ride Harlem Bridge to Yonkers and back.